Legal Opinion
Fraelick v. PerkettPR, Inc.
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided June 6, 2013No. 11-P-1832PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBrown, J.
Just days after an at-will employee reiterated her displeasure to her employer at having long been denied a part of her compensation, she was fired.
A complaint, filed by the aggrieved employee (plaintiff), set out a series of interlinked facts, sufficiently detailed, which, when read together, suggested the corporate employer and its president had violated § 148A of the Massachusetts Wage Act, G. L. c. 149, §§ 148 et seq. (Wage Act), by terminating the plaintiff’s employment in retaliation for her speaking out to senior management about the employer’s failure to pay timely the sums due under…
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